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sex at thirty-one.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 53365

[Prince George, BC, 1978]. First edition. A poetry broadside, measuring 11 X 11 inches. Printed on heavy brown stock, cut of tragicomic masks at the top. Fine condition. Apparently printed by Gold himself in an edition of 80 copies. Signed by Gold.
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Reflections And Distortions. Venerean Vignettes. Arthur Goldreich: Images. Words: Woodruff W. Wood.

By: Goldreich (Arthur) and Woodruff W. Wood.

Price: $200.00

Seller ID: 52759

Vancouver: Cobblestone Press, 1980. First edition. 40 leaves plus colophon and title leaves, loose in an ivory cardstock folder, unlettered, all within a manila envelope which is ruled and lettered on the front in red & black. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by Goldreich and Wood. Fine condition, the manila envelope has a few tears along folds. A nicely printed portfolio; the text is printed on Byronic Text, Arctic White, & bound in Strathmore Grandee Cover, Mantilla Ivory. The offset lithographic reproductions were printed at Benwell-Atkins Limited, Vancouver. Goldreich, who died in 20...
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Oscar Wilde. Translated, with an Introduction, by Barry Asker.

By: Greve (Felix Paul) [Frederick Philip Grove].

Price: $200.00

Seller ID: 52665

Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1984. First edition in English. Beige silk, decorative paper labels on spine and front cover. Brown end papers. Printed in brown & black. Of an edition of 106 copies, this is one of 90 bound in Coromandel silk. A fine copy. Issued as Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar, Number One. Originally published in German in 1903. A handsome book, nicely produced. Woodsworth A32a.
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Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances; or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented. In Two Volumes.

By: Haliburton (Thomas Chandler)

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: 52373

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1853. Second edition. The two volumes bound in half-calf & marbled boards, spines designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. Top edge gilt. No half-titles, ads not bound at the end of Vol II. A bit of scuffing to spine and along hinges, some shelf wear to tips, otherwise a clean and decent set, with the hinges a bit tender but entirely intact. Published the same year as the first edition, anonymously.
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The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville. First Series/Second Series.

By: Haliburton (Thomas Chandler)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY: William H. Colyer, 1840. Later edition; first published in 1836.:

Seller ID: 55405

Original paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine, with printed paper spine label. Boards worn, wear to spine ends, label scratched and barely legible, scattered foxing throughout; basically very good otherwise. 19th century library label from Pittsfield [NY] on inner front cover. This volume contains both the first and second series, but paginated continuously; the title page of the Second Series is page [115]. A classic of Canadian humour first published in 1836, there are many editions.
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Giving Blood in Detroit.

By: Hall (Phil)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 53483

[Windsor: Flat Singles Press, 1970]. An illustrated poetry broadside, measuring 10 X 14 inches. Printed in black on cream stock. Signed by Hall at the bottom, in red. Fine condition
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Seawrack.

By: Helwig (David)

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 54815

Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2013. First edition. Stiff decorative wrappers. A fine copy. This is one of 80 numbered copies in this format; there were also 30 produced in hard covers. Issued as Volume 7 in the publisher's Contemporary Canadian Poets series.
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A Broadside dated January 12, 1986. Beginning: In an unusual departure....

By: Hoffer (William)

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 54018

Vancouver: William Hoffer & The Well Defended Press, 1986. A single sheet on stiff white stock, printed in black. Fine condition. Issued by Hoffer as the cover to his list 64, this is one of the unfolded copies which were handed out in the shop to visitors and friends. A continuation of the diatribe between Hoffer & Brian Fawcett. Woodsworth A38.
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A Broadside dated January 12, 1986. Beginning: In an unusual departure....

By: Hoffer (William)

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 54304

The Thing About Things.

By: Hood (Andrew)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54820

Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2011. First edition. Beige pictorial cloth, beige end papers. Illustrated title page. A fine copy. This is one of 30 copies bound in cloth, of a total edition of 100. A short prose work.
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The Little Green Glove and Other Stories.

By: Hoskin (Mary)

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 53563

[Toronto: Blake, 1920]. First edition. Green cloth, front cover stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Six inserted plates, all present. Some small stains to binding, one page wrinkled; a piece torn from front end paper, removing part of an inscription. This copy is unfortunately lacking its title page. Publication data was obtained from WorldCat. A very scarce collection.
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Wide Horizons.

By: Jaques (Edna)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 54714

Moose Jaw: The Times Company, [1934]. First edition. Green wrappers lettered in gold, stapled. Frontispiece portrait of Jaques. Original printed spiderweb glasine intact, with some chipping to the upper front cover. The frontispiece is signed by Jaques, dated 1934. A fragile little booklet.
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Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth.

By: Jones (D.G.) (Coach House Press)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 53259

This is not the book, but a poster for this Coach House Press book, published in 1977. It measures about 18 X 17 inches. Printed in color, most of the poster is taken up by a reproduction of the David Milne Dry point, Blue Sky Palgrave, 2nd version. A few wrinkles at margins, but about fine. An uncommon advertising poster.
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The Birth of God.

By: Kearns (Lionel)

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 54273

London: Trigram Press, 1968. First edition. A single sheet, twice folded to make a small booklet. Some light edge wear, about fine. This is also sometimes seen flat, unfolded, as a broadside. This copy is on brown stock, lettered in black; evidently a trial copy, written within is: "black on brown coppermill". We have had other copies, on different papers, similarly marked.
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The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt. Baseball Stories.

By: Kinsella (W.P.)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 52191

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Advance, uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Gray wrappers lettered in black. A fine copy.
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Chapter One of a Work in Progress.

By: Kinsella (W.P.)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1988. First edition.:

Seller ID: 52341

[16]pp. Original wrappers, stitched. This is copy 44 of 300 numbered copies, signed by Kinsella. The entire edition was 326. A fine copy. Woodsworth A54a.
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The Thrill of the Grass.

By: Kinsella (W.P.)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 52419

Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1984. First edition. Green pictorial wrappers, stitched. A fine copy. This is one of 300 numbered copies, signed by Kinsella. Woodsworth A33a.
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The Crisis in Education. An address delivered before a meeting of the Canadian Club at Toronto, Canada, on Monday, February 16, 1948.

By: Kirkconnell (Watson)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54544

Toronto?, 1948. Small self-wrappers, stapled. A 32-page booklet. Slight staple rust, but a fine copy. Signed by Kirkconnell, "with compliments", on the front cover.
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A Tale of Seven Cities. (An address given by Professor Watson Kirkconnell, of McMaster University, president-elect of Acadia University, at a public dinner held in his honour by the Women's Civic Club, Hamilton, Ontario, on April 9th, 1948.)

By: Kirkconnell (Watson)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54545

Toronto?, 1948. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Some faint edge wear, about fine. A 32-page booklet, Imprint at the end of The Mission Press, 67 Bond Street [Toronto]. Uncommon.
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The Riddle Machine.

By: Lambert (Betty)

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: 52369

[Vancouver : New Play Centre, 196-?] Mimeographed, iii + 45 leaves. 36cm. Metal fastener. Some bends at top and bottom, otherwise fine. This conforms exactly to the description of the copy listed in the National Library of Canada's database, AMICUS, which also describes a copy with 32 leaves, referred to as a 'typescript' and suggesting that it is possibly an earlier version. This copy came from the stock of William Hoffer, and is likely a genuine copy produced by the New Play Centre in the 1960s, as his stock contained other material from this source. This play was performed in Canada in 1966...
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